Tee L. Guidotti, M.D., M.P.H.
Chair
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University Medical Center.

Tee Lamont Guidotti holds the position of Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, in the School of Public Health and Health Services of The George Washington University Medical Center. He is also Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine of the George Washington School of Medicine and is cross-appointed as professor of pulmonary medicine and epidemiology. He came to GW in January 1999.

From 1984 to 1998 he served as Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Occupational Health Program in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, Edmonton. During the 1993-94 academic year he also served as Acting Chair of the Department. He was also Professor (Honorary) in the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division). In 1996, he was made a Killam Annual Professor of the University of Alberta.

Dr. Guidotti is a physician interested primarily in occupational and environmental health. He is certified as a specialist in internal medicine, lung diseases and occupational medicine. His primary research interests are air quality, inhalation toxicology and occupational and environmental lung diseases. Dr. Guidotti has devoted his career in environmental health to understanding issues of ecosystem disturbance and their relationship to human health.

Dr. Guidotti was trained in clinical medicine and occupational medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and received his public health education (the M.P.H. degree) at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He obtained his M.D. from the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine after graduating with honors from the University of Southern California in biological sciences. He also trained in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health. He holds or has held medical qualifications in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and fellowships in the principal organizations in his specialty areas.

He has been a collaborator in several research networks, including the Tricouncil EcoResearch Chair in Environmental Risk Management, at the University of Alberta, and the Canada-wide Sustainable Forest Network. He has chaired or participated in numerous task forces, among them expert panels sponsored by Health Canada, the Canadian Global Change Program, the Canadian Public Health Association, and the International Joint Commission. He was a founding President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, President of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics and sits or has sat on the Board of Directors of numerous organizations, including the International Society for Ecosystem Health, the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada.

Dr. Guidotti is the author or a principal co-author of numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers and discussion pieces and several books, including The Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment, and a forthcoming textbook, as yet untitled, on environmental health in the context of development studies sponsored by the World Health Organization to be published by Oxford University Press.

He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. His wife, Donna Marie Artuso, is a Canadian journalist specializing in local political issues. She has had extensive experience in government in Canada at the federal, provincial and municipal levels.

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